Some reasons to live in or near Red Lodge, MT
By Dorothea Lowe
At our local airport (KRED) you can park your airplane or take flying lessons, go downtown for fine dining, live entertainment and browse the interesting shops, galleries and our museum features a coalmine in the basement. The ski mountain with 71 runs is just outside of town and so is the golf course with the country club. You might enjoy a day trip to the Yellowstone Park via our spectacular Beartooth Highway which rises to 11,000 feet. Billings is about an hour north, which is the largest city in Montana and features an international airport.
Cody is a spiffy little town an hour south in Wyoming, they have a rodeo there every day in summer, but Red Lodge is never short of festivals with many outdoor concerts in summer, Festival of Nations, Champion Rodeo, Harley events, mountain biking competitions, the Mountain Men Rendezvous and many others. We have a Nature Center that harbors injured wild things that cannot be released because of permanent injuries.
You can take a day trip to the Pryor Mountains where the oldest herd of wild horses in North America roam, or go fly fishing along Rock Creek, the Stillwater or 485 mountain streams and lakes. There is a tennis court, basketball court and a swimming pool in town for public use as well. There are pig races in Bear Creek and the historic Round Barn features a theater coupled with a restaurant just north of town. Another day trip would be river rafting on the Yellowstone or the Stillwater. In winter, we have the Winter Carnival, cross-country, ski-joring, downhill skiing, snowmobiling and snowshoeing.
Downtown Red Lodge is completely restored to its previous splendor, with more restaurants per capita than any other town in Montana, there are free wagon rides all summer long and we have 300 days of sunshine, with just enough snow in winter to look decorative and to have fun.
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